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diggers22 said:
I noticed a very lucky to be in the premier league comment I’d love someone to sit me down and explain to me why we are lucky.
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Because winning whilst having less possession in a match is always due to having been dominated by the other side and having nicked a lucky win, and never a tactical to win the game.
 
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The Situation said:
Yep, they spent approx €140m this summer and ended up with a net spend of €100m after the Trafford sale and a couple of other small ones.

By contrast we spent approx €178m and ended up with a net spend of €127m after the Jobe, Watson and Ekwah sales.

So approx €27m more spent by us but when you look at the difference in the quality of player brought in you'd think it was €227m more!

They've also spent poorly, for example Broja who they spent €23m on can't get a start for them and has only played 70 odd minutes off the bench for them all season so far. Bashir Humphreys who they spent €15m on hasn't even been in their squad for the last 3 games and has literally played 2 minutes all season.

That's close to €40m up in smoke!
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The main problem with spending to gain promotion is that "the players you need to buy to get promoted" aren't "the players you need to buy to stay in the Premier League".

Getting relegated meant they had a huge financial imperative to get promoted as soon as possible, but that can often lead to thinking and planning which is very short term because you can't plan past getting promoted.

The one element of luck I will accept is that we were "lucky" to get promoted with effectively zero spending over 3 years, which gave us the massive PSR headroom to gamble on our new squad.

Burnley and Leeds were more or less spent up the moment they were promoted and Sheffield United would have been in exactly the same position.

It's incredible to think that those three teams had individual players who had cost as much or more as our £10 million play off starting team and our £14 million entire squad!
 
Mickdundee said:
Still peddling out the “easy fixture list” line I see. We’ve played the current top 2, another 2 clubs currently in the top 10, plus the teams in 11th and 12th.

So out of 11 games we’ve played 6 teams in the top 12
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Even the first easy six games thing was largely bullshit. Half of those six are playing Europe this season.
 
“They’re not all that, we beat them comfortably, but what they have is momentum and confidence from probably the kindest set of fixtures a promoted team has ever had and that’s massive. If they’d had our fixtures they’d be in a pretty similar position to us.”

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Haha. That’s mint that like.

Sitting 4th bottom and still reckon they’re as good as us.😆😆😆
 
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I like to have a read of other fans opinions of us. The Burnley lot have always been well into the bitter spectrum. It might surprise but I’ve found the Leeds forum to be pretty balanced and very complimentary about us in the main.
 
If we want to make excuses, we could say if Ballard wasn't injured at their place in the first 5 mins and Mayenda hadn't missed from 2yds then we'd have comfortably won.

Serious denial in there, hope they go down.

At least Leeds have just shut up and focused on their own problems.
skullmeister said:
I like to have a read of other fans opinions of us. The Burnley lot have always been well into the bitter spectrum. It might surprise but I’ve found the Leeds forum to be pretty balanced and very complimentary about us in the main.
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This, they don't go into detail at all, it's mostly along the lines of "fair play".
 
Sunderland Til I Cry said:
It’s human nature i’m afraid, looking outwards instead of looking inwards, they are excusing their clubs / teams weaknesses and failures by pulling us down, makes em feel better, same applies to the saudi gravy dribblers up the road.

“Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine brighter”. Rather sums it up i think.

Long may it continue.
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I’ve found Sunderland people do the opposite, we build others up way above what they are and tend to look to the negative within. You just have to look at the Facebook Sunderland groups, you think the city centre hadn’t had a penny spent in it and it was like an active war zone. It’s definitely a strange wearside thing rather than a north east thing as them up the road would big up a piece of shite on Northumberland street as the best piece of shit going. I’ve literally had conversations with some that said to me Newcastle was just as good as London and New York 🙈😂
 
DonaldDownTheWing said:
Funny as fuck how they’re still going on about last season when our team has completely changed.

We made up the 24 point gap in the transfer window.
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The league was also a bit of a red herring, I always judge teams on the two head to heads and we should’ve had six points off them last season.
 
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